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British Columbia USA-1981: Yellow Flowers With Bees And Blue Flowers Moving

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

  • Year1981
  • Decade1980s
  • LocationBritish Columbia, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1981 British Columbia

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Yellow Flowers With Bees And Blue Flowers Moving — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1981 capturing a close-up of yellow composite flowers with a bumblebee actively pollinating. The scene transitions to vibrant purple delphiniums swaying gently in a breeze, surrounded by lush green foliage. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and subtle camera movement typical of handheld Super 8 footage. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into nature, ideal for documentaries, nature studies, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details
Close-upExteriorHandheld
Resolution
4K restored master (MP4)
License
Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
122877332

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

  • People visible: No
  • Logos / trademarks: No
  • Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel
Reel 1795 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label
august,VII-8
Reel-level year note
1981
Reel-level location note
hooper lake, british columbia
Date
1981 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence
Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location
British Columbia, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence
Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route
Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

  • nature
  • plants
  • insects
  • pollinators
  • weather
  • yellow
  • flowers
  • bees
  • blue
  • moving
  • windy
  • conditions
  • british columbia USA
  • 1981
  • 1981 home movie footage
  • vintage 8mm film
  • Super 8 nature clip
  • bees pollinating flowers
  • yellow composite flowers
  • purple delphiniums
  • bumblebee close-up
  • handheld 8mm footage
  • natural grain
  • film grain effect
  • vintage nature footage
  • archival 1980s film
  • outdoor garden scene
  • wind-blown flowers
  • retro home movie
  • vintage insect footage
  • nostalgic nature clip
  • documentary nature footage

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
This 1981 8mm nature clip can support archival requests for early-1980s home-movie cutaways of garden flowers, pollinators, and breezy plant movement.
Period detail
The frames offer few date-specific clues beyond the 1981 8mm source metadata, showing close garden views of flowers and foliage rather than identifiable built surroundings.
Home-movie behavior
The footage has an unstaged home-movie feel, with close handheld attention to bees, yellow blossoms, purple flowers, and shifting garden light.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include yellow composite flowers, a bumblebee or bee-like insect, purple-blue flower spikes, green leaves, stems, soft shadows, and film-frame borders.
Film character
The 8mm scan shows visible grain, soft focus, saturated greens and yellows, uneven exposure, and slight handheld movement consistent with physical home-movie film.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a brief insert, seasonal transition, pollination cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a nature or family-film sequence.
Historical context
The clip documents a domestic-scale garden or natural planting through a home-movie lens, emphasizing pollinators and flowers rather than a named public place.
Research note
No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright, source provenance, and any location claims separately.
Research search match
Relevant searches include 1981 8mm bees on yellow flowers, Super 8 garden pollinator footage, purple flowers in wind, and vintage home movie nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1981 British Columbia-listed nature material, then with other archival flowers, insects, and windy garden clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1981 8mm home-movie frame of yellow garden flowers with a bee or bee-like insect near the blossoms and dense green foliage behind.
A bee visits yellow flowers in a close garden view.
Close 8mm frame of a bee or bee-like insect hovering or landing near yellow flowers, with leafy green stems filling the background.
A pollinating insect moves near yellow blossoms.
Soft handheld 8mm frame showing yellow flowers partly blurred in the foreground with upright green stems and leaves behind.
Yellow garden flowers blur past green stems.
1981 8mm home-movie frame of purple-blue flower spikes, likely delphiniums, moving among green leaves and stems.
Purple-blue flowers sway among green foliage.

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